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Hope Engineering Partners with Pfizer

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Pfizer Global Research and Development in Holland, Mich., and the engineering program
at Hope College, also in Holland, have entered into a "strategic alliance" that will
give the college's students a chance to apply their lessons to helping a local company
with a real- life design problem.

Pfizer Global Research and Development in Holland, Mich., and the engineering program
at Hope College, also in Holland, have entered into a "strategic alliance" that will
give the college's students a chance to apply their lessons to helping a local company
with a real- life design problem.

For the remainder of the 2002 calendar year, engineering students at Hope will work
with Pfizer to help design a device for dispensing chemicals during mixing.

Pfizer has pledged financial support to pursue the project, which started this semester
with students enrolled in the college's senior-level engineering design course. During
the spring semester, the students have been working with Pfizer to define the specific
design problem and to search for and consider solutions. This summer, students and
a faculty mentor will continue the effort as a collaborative research project, developing
a prototype based on the spring semester's work. The plan is to complete the project
in the fall.

"Through this partnership our students have the opportunity to experience a 'real-world'
design problem from start to finish, while working alongside Pfizer's engineers and
Hope engineering faculty," said Dr. Roger Veldman, who is an assistant professor of
engineering and teaching the engineering design course. "It's really been a great
experience so far, and I expect that will continue."

Originally a concentration within physics, engineering grew into a major at Hope in
1997. The college's Bachelor of Science degree with a major in engineering received
accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board
for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in 2001.